{"product_id":"eight-days-in-may-how-germanys-war-ended","title":"Eight Days in May : How Germany's War Ended","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Fuhrer, Admiral Doenitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union. All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich Kastner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'. 'A fast-paced, brilliant recounting of the turbulent last days of the Third Reich, with all the energy and chaos of a Jackson Pollock canvas' Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in its Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: UK, 2022\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eLanguages: English \u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9780141994109\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 014199410X\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Volker Ullrich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43698111512842,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780141994109.jpg?v=1661595471","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/eight-days-in-may-how-germanys-war-ended","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}